Celonites octoannulatus hissaricus Kostylev, 1940

Fateryga, Alexander V., 2025, Type specimens of the pollen wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Masarinae) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Zoological Museum of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Zootaxa 5632 (2), pp. 201-242 : 211-215

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Celonites octoannulatus hissaricus Kostylev View in CoL

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Celonites octoannulatus hissaricus Kostylev, 1940: 137 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “ Ruidacht , 40 km vers le N de Stalinabad (autrefois Duchambé). 3000 m. au-dessus du niv. de la m” [ Tajikistan]).

Type material. LECTOTYPE ( DESIGNATED HERE): ♀, labeled “Руйдашт [Ruydasht] / 22-VII 37 / В. Гуссаковск. [ V. Gussakovskij] // C. octoannulatus / hissaricus Typ. ♀ / G Kostylev det. 1938 // к. Гуссаковского [collection of Gussakovskij] // Lectotype ♀ Celonites / octoannulatus hissaricus / Kostylev, 1940 / des. Fateryga, 2024 [red label] // Zoological Institute / St. Petersburg / INS_HYM_0000325 [pale yellow label]” [ ZISP]. PARALECTOTYPE: TAJIKISTAN: Ruydasht, 22.VII.1937, 1 ♂, leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP].

Current status. Junior synonym (syn. nov.) of Celonites octoannulatus ( Kuznetzov, 1923) View in CoL .

Remarks. Kostylev (1940) reported both the female and the male collected in Ruydasht on 22.VII.1937 by V. Gussakovskij as the “type”; the female specimen is designated here as the lectotype. The lectotype is lacking the right flagellum of antenna. There are no differences between C. octoannulatus octoannulatus and C. octoannulatus hissaricus besides the coloration. The latter subspecies has a less rich yellow pattern and a darker flagellum. A similar variability in the coloration of the flagellum is observed in other species (e.g., in C. kozlovi , see Fateryga et al. 2023a). Male genitalia of both subspecies were also examined and no differences were revealed. Therefore, C. octoannulatus hissaricus is synonymized here with C. octoannulatus .